Audrey Hepburn as Ariane Farrell by Agent X
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Medium: giclee print
Dimensions: 33 x 33 in
Edition production year: 2022
Price: $595.00 USD
Status: available
Agent X has created a bright and brilliant mash-up of iconic Pop Art aesthetics and digital collage techniques. Agent X intercuts Pop art imagery with panels of poppy pattern, colour, and with multicoloured paint splats and drips. He creates a visual harmony out of haphazard composition. Raw, dynamic, and utterly captivating, ‘Audrey Hepburn as Ariane Farrell’ is a fabulous gem.
Why collect this work?
A high-contrast screen portrait is made to compete with cropped luxury names and saturated marks, recasting cinematic recognition as a product of commercial image circulation.
- The supplied artist profile says Agent X combines historical ephemera with contemporary fashion and media imagery. That approach matters here because Hepburn’s film identity is folded into the visual language of branding.
- In the photograph, Hepburn’s monochrome face occupies the centre while fragments of Gucci, Prada, Dior, Hermès and Chanel crowd its edges. Her level gaze provides a fixed point within a field of interrupted words and splatter-like forms.
- Catalogued as a 2022 giclée print, the work draws on the medium’s capacity for sharp lettering, strong tonal contrast and many saturated colours. The apparent drips are visible as reproduced imagery, not confirmed surface texture.
- The work brings portraiture, fashion advertising and collage into the same square frame. Its particular curatorial value lies in showing how an individual screen character can be repackaged through unrelated signs of luxury and status.
About the Artist
Agent X
Agent X is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: printmaking. Based in Vancouver, CA.
Nationality: Canadian
Agent X, cultural explorer and agent of the unknown, creates experimental, multimedia collages, paintings, and 2D artwork.
